RDS Primary Science Fair
Class Project Planning Framework
1) What is your class project question? (12 words)
 This is your project title and it must be in the form of a question or investigation.
Please see previous project entries for suggested phrasing of project titles.
2) What does your class think might happen or what does your class think they might
find? (100 words)
 Suggest some possible answers to the question using prediction or estimation based
on available information / existing class knowledge
3) What will you do to get the evidence/information you need to answer your question?
(200 words)
This should include:
 Observing
 Counting, timing or measuring
 Changing something to see what happens
 Building, coding, designing or making something to use (eg a tool, model or ICT
solution)
 Recording
4) How can you organise your evidence/information so that it makes sense?
(200 words)
This could include:
 Drawing a chart or plotting a graph
 Looking for patterns
 Classifying things or putting them in order
5) What does your evidence/information mean?
This could include:
 What can you tell from the graphs or charts?
 What might cause any of the patterns that you found?
 Has ordering or classifying the evidence made it any clearer and if so, why?
6) So, how can you piece it all together to answer your project’s question?
This could include:
 Did what you expect to happen, happen?
 Did you find out anything unexpected and can you explain why?
 If you were to repeat your investigation, would you do anything differently?
 Can you relate your findings to a real life situation?
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